SolidWorks API

Hi

Does any of you have any idea how I write custom properties directly
to SolidWorks files, without having to open them in SolidWorks first
???

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

Does any of you have any idea how I write custom properties
directly

Get "dsofile.dll" frim http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q224351/,
which gives you access document properties through the OS, without
having to open the file.
The bad news are:
1) you won't be able to access configuration-specific properties
2) some earlier messages on this group say it doesn't work with Win
XP. Didn't try...
Philippe Guglielmetti - www.e-systems.ch

 

Works with my XP Pro.
Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com

 

Works here too XP Pro

Corey

 

Thanks a lot... I'll have a go at it, as soon as possible... :-D

 

Any idea why?

....snip

 

24.10.2004 14:38:39

Yup : they are stored in different places. SW Files use the MS "OLE
Structured storage" format, which has one specific location for file
properties, then a structure of file-specific data. SW files have one
block for each config, and config properties are stored in it, out of
the reach of dsofile.dll...
I used http://www.codeproject.com/macro/ssfview.asp to investigate a
bit on this.
Philippe Guglielmetti - www.e-systems.ch

 

Were there copyrights on the dsofile.dll?

I wonder what it would take to edit it to be config specific.

Corey

 

Corey Scheich wrote in message

You don't have to edit it, you can use the Microsoft Structure
Storage API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.
asp?url=/library/en-us/stg/stg/structured_storage_reference.asp) or
the "structured storage library" for Borland C++ and Delphi I found
on the net (http://www.plasmatech.com/storage.htm)
Philippe Guglielmetti - www.e-systems.ch

 

Kewel I will look into that sometime.

Corey

 

The plasmatech demo reads the configuration specific properties. This
bears some looking into.